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effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
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employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less …. The results suggest that strict employment protection legislation (EPL) gives immigrants a comparative advantage relative … to natives. Stricter EPL is found to reduce employment and reduce hiring and firing rates for natives. By contrast …
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effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female … immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived immigrants … and overeducation in the female labour market. Established immigrants were found to enjoy a wage premia, particularly …
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of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours … to natives, immigrants are less likely to supply long work weeks if they work in occupations where the immigrant …-native earnings differential is big. Second, immigrants are also less likely to supply long work weeks when they work in occupations …
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Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...
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In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed …. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the … find any signs of native workers being displaced by immigrants. Furthermore, we find only very limited signs of replacement …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less … most groups of immigrants. Similarly, there is a significant wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers, but this …
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that immigrants with lower unobserved skills and with a higher unobserved propensity to migrate early have a faster …
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inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … determinants of success in the U.S. labor market, an obvious concern is that such immigrants are a poor fit for the restructured … topics: the labor market integration of immigrants, the socioeconomic attainment of the U.S.-born descendants of immigrants …
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